Category: Sc-fi and Fantasy
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Dan McPharlin
Illustrator and designer Dan McPharlin gives little information about himself, his work or his clients on his website, which essentially just offers a download of a PDF portfolio from 2006 (also lacking in background information) and a link to his Flickr stream, which serves as his actual portfolio on the web. In the latter you…
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The Legend of Steel Bashaw, Petar Meseldžija
Serbian artist Petar Meseldžija, who I wrote about in 2008, has a career that has included outstanding work in comics, illustration, posters and gallery art. He has taken elements from all aspects of his skill range and applied them to the classic form of the illustrated storybook in The Legend of Steel Bashaw, an adaptation…
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Al Williamson Archives
It’s a fairly common practice among comics artists to publish “sketchbooks”, sometimes literally that, sometimes collections of more finished drawings. In them we can often see the artist at play, doing preliminary sketches for art from stories with which we’re familiar, indulging in imaginative flights of fancy, doodling, practicing and learning. Rarely do we get…
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ImagineFX #60
I’ve written before about ImagineFX, a UK based magazine devoted primarily to 2D digital art (“digital painting”) for the fantasy, science fiction and concept art fields. Almost every issue of the magazine I’ve every seen has had articles of interest to me, (and ImagineFX is one of those magazines, like Illustration magazine, in which even…
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James C. Christensen
James Christensen’s paintings range from straightforward portraits to fantasy tinged depictions of angels and Renaissance ladies to phantasmic tableaux of fantasy subjects that look as though the books in a children’s library had been run through a fan and reassembled by a cross-eyed surrealist. Christensen seems to swim in a rich sea of influences, from…